| The Best American Short Stories 1998 | |
| Editor: | Katrina Kenison and Garrison Keillor |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0395875145 |
| Preceded By: | The Best American Short Stories 1997 |
| Followed By: | The Best American Short Stories 1999 |
The Best American Short Stories 1998, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Garrison Keillor.[1] [2] [3]
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Appetites" | Zyzzyva | |
| "The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue" | The Sun | |
| "Body Language" | Story | |
| "Chance" | The Antioch Review | |
| "Cosmopolitan" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| Carol Anshaw | "Elvis Has Left the Building" | Story |
| "Every Night for a Thousand Years" | The New Yorker | |
| "Flower Children" | Ploughshares | |
| "Glory Goes and Gets Some" | Open City | |
| "The Half-Skinned Steer" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| "Morphine" | Virginia Quarterly Review | |
| "Mr. Sweetly Indecent" | Ploughshares | |
| "My Father on the Verge of Disgrace" | The New Yorker | |
| "Penance" | Harper's Magazine | |
| "People Like That Are the Only People Here" | The New Yorker | |
| "Tea at the House" | Ploughshares | |
| "Unified Front" | The Midwesterner | |
| "Wayne in Love" | New England Review | |
| "Welding with Children" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| "Would You Know It Wasn't Love" | Gulf Coast | |
Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1997" were Ann Beattie, T. C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, Louise Erdrich, Jeffrey Eugenides, Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, and Tobias Wolff.